A 99% Successful Attempt to Get Selenium Tests Running in Continuous Integration using Maven and Cargo
A colleague and I have been trying to create a build procedure that runs Selenium tests against a Grails application. Our end goal is to ensure that we can test our app’s Ajax functionality using our target browser in a continuous integration environment. [[ UPDATE - we have achieved success, please see mailing list reference]] Read the rest of this entry »
A Groovy Script to Determine the SVN Revision Number of Your Source Base
When you encounter a bug in one of your applications, are you able to
quickly determine the revision number of the source code base from which
the application was built ? Read the rest of this entry »
Groovy/Gant Tasks for (un)Tar and G(un)zip Fail To Work Like Native OS Commands
I might have picked the wrong project on which to follow through with my vow to ditch shell scripts for Groovy scripts.
The Labs was recently engaged to do build monkey work on a very interesting Android project (can’t reveal the details just yet.) One of the scripts we wrote for this project builds .dat images to flash the Android device. The first cut of the script failed Read the rest of this entry »
Why Bother With Maven For Grails Development? — 2 words: downloadSources=true
A while back one of my colleagues asked me what advantage the Maven Grails plugin has over straight-up grails commands that invoke Gant tasks. Well today, I just rediscovered a classic from the archives that will help me answer this question: the Maven idea:idea plugin. This plugin (and its companion for Eclipse developers: eclipse:eclipse) generates an IDE project from a pom.xml. Read the rest of this entry »
Wish List: Running Grails and Groovy from the Maven Repository.
The Need For A Separately Installed Grails Instance Outside of the Maven Repo
I recently began using the excellent maven-grails plugin, and It works quite well.
The documentation for the plugin suggests that “you should unset the GRAILS_HOME environment variable when running Maven with a Grails project. This is because you no longer need to install Grails separately to use it with Maven!” True enough. But currently when you are not using Maven to run Grails you can’t do without the GRAILS_HOME setting and installations of Groovy and Grails outside of your local Maven repository. Read the rest of this entry »
